As McCain & his fellows cave-in to Bush on torture, this news from Iraq:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1696153.ece
What can poetry do in the face of this?
I suppose Fred's sardonic takes on such things through history & legend
mark a start....
Doug
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Where philosophy stops, poetry is impelled to begin. He was
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